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the death of the maple immediately beyond the southern pier has 

 shown conclusively that it is due to soil saturation by illumina- 

 ting gas, and not to the disturbance caused by the making of the 

 road. The main that supplies the museum building crosses the 

 bridge between the southern roadway and the foot-path and 



View at the 200th Street Entrance of the N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 



October, 1904. 



makes an angle a short distance beyond the dead maple shown 

 in the accompanying photograph. Several times leaks have oc- 

 curred at this point and been repaired, but the damage has been 

 done and one of the four symmetrical and beautiful sugar maples 

 has suffered in consequence. 



Elizabeth G. Britton. 

 N. Y. Botanical Gakdkn, October, 1904. 



A Name Explained. — The ericaceous genus " A'o//s>/itt," as 

 it is rather erroneously written, obtains a conspicuous place under 

 its rightful name, in the second volume of Britton and Brown's 

 Illustrated Flora, where, on page 569 the name is noted as " un- 

 explained." The term is Greek, with the meaning of lameness, 

 or defectiveness ; and the character of the genus, as to certain 

 particulars as they are mentioned by Nuttall, whose work Rafin- 



